{"id":546,"date":"2007-02-26T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2007-02-28T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T07:01:10","slug":"early-space-elevators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Early Space Elevators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/EarlySpaceElevators.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_EarlySpaceElevators.jpg\"  height=\"137\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 137px\" \/><\/a>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orionsarm.com\/historical\/space_elevators.html\">&#8220;future history&#8221;<\/a> description of (eventually) four space elevators being built is, IMHO, quite interesting.\u00a0 It also shows how technology can quickly change things.\u00a0 The Space Elevators described in this 2003 web piece are 1) land-based, 2) were not launched for a long time after the technology was available because of the &#8220;cost of transporting the vast mass required&#8221; and 3) the fear of equatorial countries\u00a0of having &#8220;thousands of kilometers of cable falling on their heads&#8221;.\u00a0 All of this thinking has changed, of course, thanks to Dr. Edwards and his cohorts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Click on the picture or visit the website for a larger version&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;future history&#8221; description of (eventually) four space elevators being built is, IMHO, quite interesting.\u00a0 It also shows how technology can quickly change things.\u00a0 The Space Elevators described in this 2003 web piece are 1) land-based, 2) were not launched for a long time after the technology was available because of the &#8220;cost of transporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}